A mirror of the official Linux kernel repository just in case
Go to file
Linus Torvalds 9fb7007de8 Char/Misc patch for 5.5-rc6
Here is a single fix, for the chrdev core, for 5.5-rc6
 
 There's been a long-standing race condition triggered by syzbot, and
 occasionally real people, in the chrdev open() path.  Will finally took
 the time to track it down and fix it for real before the holidays.
 
 Here's that one patch, it's been in linux-next for a while with no
 reported issues and it does fix the reported problem.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
 
 iG0EABECAC0WIQT0tgzFv3jCIUoxPcsxR9QN2y37KQUCXhjcRA8cZ3JlZ0Brcm9h
 aC5jb20ACgkQMUfUDdst+ykIyQCfcrNOyyFktEj7/qiVJrMLbzVWoWYAoMHtNQcG
 3IYmNNJ+eXXJEiOgeZ4J
 =J0bS
 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Merge tag 'char-misc-5.5-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

Pull char/misc fix from Greg KH:
 "Here is a single fix, for the chrdev core, for 5.5-rc6

  There's been a long-standing race condition triggered by syzbot, and
  occasionally real people, in the chrdev open() path. Will finally took
  the time to track it down and fix it for real before the holidays.

  Here's that one patch, it's been in linux-next for a while with no
  reported issues and it does fix the reported problem"

* tag 'char-misc-5.5-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
  chardev: Avoid potential use-after-free in 'chrdev_open()'
2020-01-10 13:25:24 -08:00
arch ARC fixes for v5.5-rc6 2020-01-06 10:16:48 -08:00
block fs: move guard_bio_eod() after bio_set_op_attrs 2020-01-09 08:16:12 -07:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto tpmdd fixes for Linux v5.5-rc3 2019-12-18 17:17:36 -08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-01-09 10:34:07 -08:00
drivers Staging fixes for 5.5-rc6 2020-01-10 13:22:11 -08:00
fs Char/Misc patch for 5.5-rc6 2020-01-10 13:25:24 -08:00
include block-5.5-2020-01-10 2020-01-10 12:05:26 -08:00
init Revert "fs: remove ksys_dup()" 2020-01-02 16:15:33 -08:00
ipc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-01-09 10:34:07 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-12-22 17:00:04 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm arm64: Revert support for execute-only user mappings 2020-01-06 10:10:07 -08:00
net tipc: fix wrong connect() return code 2020-01-08 15:57:35 -08:00
samples samples/seccomp: Zero out members based on seccomp_notif_sizes 2020-01-02 13:03:39 -08:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.5 (2nd) 2020-01-03 11:21:25 -08:00
security + Bug fixes 2020-01-04 19:28:30 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.5-rc6 2020-01-10 11:52:36 -08:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-01-09 10:34:07 -08:00
usr gen_initramfs_list.sh: fix 'bad variable name' error 2020-01-04 00:00:48 +09:00
virt PPC KVM fix for 5.5 2019-12-22 13:18:15 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
.mailmap Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-12-22 09:54:33 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Linux 5.4-rc4 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-01-09 10:34:07 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 14:23:27 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.